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Quotes about Imbecility

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine — but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.
- Hilaire Belloc
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
- Samuel Johnson
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
- Hilaire Belloc